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July 04, 2012

Color Perfecting with Patti Hamil

Hello! Have you ever seen a paper collection and thought how much you loved it, and thought of the perfect pictures only to find that the colors in the photographs didn't match the paper? Well, there are a few tricks that you can use to help that situation!

I have a page that I have done with the "At the Beach" collection. When I first saw it I thought of pictures of my cousin's daughter playing on the beach. When I printed the photos the colors were off. The paper had more orange and yellow, and the little swimsuit was pink and red? So, I still wanted to use the paper, but didn't want a color clash. I just pulled out my trusty Zig markers and added a little pimk and red!!!

Here is the completed page.

Here is what I changed:

On the completed page you notice the border sticker that is teal outlined, it did have a white center, I used light ink and colored it in. I also added a little pink to the plaid paper. Along with coloring in a few pink blooms on the floral background paper strip.

I used one of the punch-out shapes, it's the square stitched looking piece. I used light pink on the actual stitching, and then red on the circle shapes.

Here on the "Beach Baby" element flag sticker, I used red and outlined the flag. I also used light pink and colored in the swirls stickers.

Here I just again outlined the little flower circle punch-out with red, used light pink in the center of the bloom and red on the stamen!!! These small touches added enough color to blend the photos! I also used red and teal markers to "faux" stitch the zig-zag sewing.

I hope you enjoyed learning how to add a touch of color to blend your photos better with some paper collections. You can't go way out on a limb, but small touches work really well!!!